Since the open innovation craze swept the business community in the early 2000s, idea competitions have taken hold at a number of companies. While these competitions tend to bring in thousands of new ideas, most end up getting discarded. In our recent piece for Forbes, we look at what’s wrong with the idea competition approach, instead promoting innovation processes that revolve around growth platforms. We look at how some of the world’s leading companies have used growth platforms to create more stable innovation platforms that harvest only the categories of ideas that can be immediately put to good use. We also explore how you can choose the growth platforms that will fit your own innovation efforts.